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i'm going to find -- i have to say, mitch mcconnell does provide me with a lot of material. [laughter] >> in 2010, the two big tax cuts were '01 and '03. in 2010, mitch -- at a time when it was pretty clear that the first decade would yield revenue reductions on the scale of somewhere between 2 and $3 trillion over the first ten years. mitch mcconnell said to the press, july 2010, he confirmed the next day that what john -- senator john kyl said a few days earlier was accurate. mcconnell said there's no evidence whatsoever that the bush tax cuts actually dim minimum issued revenue. they increased revenue because of the vibe bran si of the tax cuts and the economy. so i think what senator kyl was expressing was the view of virtually every republican on that subject. and i would say, as they say here, this is no kind word for -- you can say in response to this. they're making this up. they have to be making this up. but do they believe it? i think they do. i mean, the truth is, i think they do. i think one of the things in the last two chapters i spent some time with is a lot
i'm going to find -- i have to say, mitch mcconnell does provide me with a lot of material. [laughter] >> in 2010, the two big tax cuts were '01 and '03. in 2010, mitch -- at a time when it was pretty clear that the first decade would yield revenue reductions on the scale of somewhere between 2 and $3 trillion over the first ten years. mitch mcconnell said to the press, july 2010, he confirmed the next day that what john -- senator john kyl said a few days earlier was accurate. mcconnell...
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want to talk about ashley judd ashley judd has not decided she's going to run for against mitch mcconnell in kentucky but she has publicly flirted with the idea shall we say and just in case karl rove who apparently has a few hundred million bucks left over from some previous activity or maybe raising more he's running this is a piece of. grandmother says she's a hollywood loop but isn't. actually join an obama family radical hollywood liberal who's right at home here in tennessee. is this a new that's a great it's the service doesn't have to be this is the new face of politics in america is like trash people before the military and i just got to this and i did what i did ironic is that you know i was knocked by people on the left that all you have no political experience i have been a secret service agent for twelve years had managed operations in foreign countries with foreign ambassadors own the business eccentric century could read that c.v. online but they actually attacked me for saying oh you don't have any political experience and yet there are people in the democrat will not all
want to talk about ashley judd ashley judd has not decided she's going to run for against mitch mcconnell in kentucky but she has publicly flirted with the idea shall we say and just in case karl rove who apparently has a few hundred million bucks left over from some previous activity or maybe raising more he's running this is a piece of. grandmother says she's a hollywood loop but isn't. actually join an obama family radical hollywood liberal who's right at home here in tennessee. is this a...
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mitch mcconnell apparently fell for an onion blog. and it said that former guantanamo detainees were going to college on the g.i. bill. they were getting g.i. bill funds. he wrote a very concerned letter. a very concerned -- yeah, his -- >> stephanie: he's united states senator. >> which surprises me he's got his -- you know, the lowest rating of any senator. >> concerns. charles darwin is moving toward spiegel. >> stephanie: since my last family reunion in the galapagos islands. >> i'm writing on behalf of constituents. contact me regarding post-9-11 g.i. benefits. i would appreciate your response to my concerns. >> what a dope. >> what an ignore amous. >> stephanie: bill o'reilly hosted glenn beck to discuss excerpts from a seminar released by judicial watch. they talked government workers to be racist. >> huh? >> stephanie: you want to know the details? >> yes please. >> stephanie: a socialologist and lecturer talks about workplace diversity. he said the following. in the footage pilgrims did not hand over their passports to native
mitch mcconnell apparently fell for an onion blog. and it said that former guantanamo detainees were going to college on the g.i. bill. they were getting g.i. bill funds. he wrote a very concerned letter. a very concerned -- yeah, his -- >> stephanie: he's united states senator. >> which surprises me he's got his -- you know, the lowest rating of any senator. >> concerns. charles darwin is moving toward spiegel. >> stephanie: since my last family reunion in the galapagos...
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that was mitch mcconnell the psychic senator. in a paper statement, of course, as congress is currently in recess. speaker john boehner, never one to balk at a touch of plagiarism offered the same criticism but he tried to lay the blame on the president by calling these his sequester cuts. funny that because i seem to remember the speaker striking a different tone on the budget deal that produced the sequester. what was it he said again? >> you look this final agreement we came to with the white house, i got 98% of what i wanted. i'm pretty happy. >> that was it. let's get right to our panel. david corn is washington bureau chief for mother jones magazine, and karen finney is former dnc communications director. both are msnbc political analysts and i'm delighted to say karen has joined us here in new york. if i can start with you, david, james clapper, the director of national intelligence, told reuters that just the cuts scheduled for our intelligence services would be, in his words, the budgetary equivalent of emergency amputat
that was mitch mcconnell the psychic senator. in a paper statement, of course, as congress is currently in recess. speaker john boehner, never one to balk at a touch of plagiarism offered the same criticism but he tried to lay the blame on the president by calling these his sequester cuts. funny that because i seem to remember the speaker striking a different tone on the budget deal that produced the sequester. what was it he said again? >> you look this final agreement we came to with...
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mitch mcconnell, a nobody. what matters to the republican far right are the few to dare to be even further right. now the huffington post editorial director. the 2013 version of john mccain version took on his constituents who looked like a room full of right wing 2010 mccains with their anti-immigrant build a fence talk. here's a bit of his exchange, if you want to call it that, with angry right wing tea partiers. >> why didn't the army go down there and stop 'em? because the only thing that stops 'em, i'm afraid to say, and it's too damn bad, but is a gun. that's all that will stop 'em. >> the border is 2,000 miles long, sir. i don't know how many troops and army people you think would have been required. i don't know how many you think would be required, but i'll give you expert information that shows you that probably maybe you're talking about two million soldiers. there are people who have been here illegally for 50 years or 40 years. am i then telling them to become guest workers? no, you can't do that.
mitch mcconnell, a nobody. what matters to the republican far right are the few to dare to be even further right. now the huffington post editorial director. the 2013 version of john mccain version took on his constituents who looked like a room full of right wing 2010 mccains with their anti-immigrant build a fence talk. here's a bit of his exchange, if you want to call it that, with angry right wing tea partiers. >> why didn't the army go down there and stop 'em? because the only thing...
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mitch mcconnell, what matters to the republican far right now are the few who dare to be even further right. now it's come to this, the huffington post and washington bureau chief from mother jones. both are msnbc political analysts. the 2013 version took on his constituents with anti-immigr t anti-immigrant, bill defense talk. here's his exchange with angry right wing tea partiers. >> why didn't the army go down there and stop them? because the only thing that stops them, i'm afraid to say and it's too damn bad, but is a gun. that's all that will stop them. >> the border is 2,000 miles long, sir. i don't know how many troopings and army people you think would have been required. i'll give you expert information that says probably you're talking 2 million soldiers. there are people who have been here illegally for 50 years. or 40 years. am i telling them to be guest workers? no, you can't do that. >> i guess those people aren't judeao christians. i rarely brag on this show. but i've been saying for a long time is the angriest guy we just saw in the last row of the latest tea party mee
mitch mcconnell, what matters to the republican far right now are the few who dare to be even further right. now it's come to this, the huffington post and washington bureau chief from mother jones. both are msnbc political analysts. the 2013 version took on his constituents with anti-immigr t anti-immigrant, bill defense talk. here's his exchange with angry right wing tea partiers. >> why didn't the army go down there and stop them? because the only thing that stops them, i'm afraid to...
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mcconnell. he has deputized senator john mccain as the weather vane by which to judge what republicans should yield on the filibuster. might be a confounding decision since mccain seems to drift from one position to another, sometimes in a matter of hours. sunday mccain had this to say about the prospect of a filibuster against hagel. let's watch. >> we've never filibustered a presidential cabinet appointee and i don't think we should start here. >> on monday, which is a day later, of course, mccain was urging his colleagues on the armed services committee to vote on hagel's nomination saying, quote, i believe he has fulfilled the rigorous requirements that the committee demands. the next day, which is tuesday, he rebuked his colleague ted cruz for his criticism of hagel. >> hagel is an honorable man. he has served his country and no one on this committee in any way should impugn his character or his integrity. >> we're going to get to some of cruz's statements in the next segment. tuesday night
mcconnell. he has deputized senator john mccain as the weather vane by which to judge what republicans should yield on the filibuster. might be a confounding decision since mccain seems to drift from one position to another, sometimes in a matter of hours. sunday mccain had this to say about the prospect of a filibuster against hagel. let's watch. >> we've never filibustered a presidential cabinet appointee and i don't think we should start here. >> on monday, which is a day later,...
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. >> always the obama administration plan, harry reid, and mitch mcconnell saying we're going to get this done, we're make sure we satisfy credit rating agents, and this will never happen, because we're going to get a committee together, and we're going to work on it and make the cuts more judicous, we're cutting a half trillion in military budget to think we're cutting another half trillion, i agree with secretary panetta this is devastating and will leave us vulnerible in many different areas. area. neil: talk about 85 billion that come up in a couple weeks, whatever merits of your argument, if that is considered really tough to do, that is considered really draconian to even think of doing. then when we have to put the peddle to metal and look at across board cuts how do we do that? >> listen, a great point, i agree with you. this is only the beginning. we have gun cutting and have cut about a half trillion, here is the key. >> over 10 years. >> thank you. >> majority lead cher give this task to -- leader should give this tact to the committees. majority leader should send this to
. >> always the obama administration plan, harry reid, and mitch mcconnell saying we're going to get this done, we're make sure we satisfy credit rating agents, and this will never happen, because we're going to get a committee together, and we're going to work on it and make the cuts more judicous, we're cutting a half trillion in military budget to think we're cutting another half trillion, i agree with secretary panetta this is devastating and will leave us vulnerible in many different...
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. >> look, this is an extension with what we saw with mitch mcconnell. they were going to be obstructionist and hold obama to be a one-term president. just because they failed at that doesn't mean they can stop all of that programming of four years. a lot of people that got stopped in 2010, now, it's not just whether or not they like the president, they were voted in by people who voted against the president. so they have constituents who hate the president in many cases as much as they do and they can't back down. >> governor, talking about they failed in the last election, over the weekend, the governor tagged democrats to socialists. in his speech, he said election day was a body blow to americans. a body blow to freedom. we are against a strategy that's ta taking place by liberals, democrats, whatever they call themselves nowadays, socialists, marxist. this isn't allen west. this is the senior senator from wisconsin, governor. >> reverend, do you think that's doing the we e republican party one wit of good. ? it's going to make them a smaller party w
. >> look, this is an extension with what we saw with mitch mcconnell. they were going to be obstructionist and hold obama to be a one-term president. just because they failed at that doesn't mean they can stop all of that programming of four years. a lot of people that got stopped in 2010, now, it's not just whether or not they like the president, they were voted in by people who voted against the president. so they have constituents who hate the president in many cases as much as they...
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why doesn't he call mitch mcconnell down to the white house for a meeting? oh, my god he hasn't met with john boehner so he can't be serious about stalling the sequester. what idiots! to repeat something like that. republicans are idiots to say it but reporters -- to repeat it. don't they remember during the first term how many meetings did president obama have? with john boehner. if you recall, he even came up to the capitol hill, he even talked to the house republican caucus trying to get their support for his stimulus package and boehner and mcconnell and eric cantor were down there at the white house for meeting after meeting after meeting and what do they do every single time they walk out of the meetings, they walked up to the microphones at the stakeout position and they trashed obama dumped on obama stabbed him in the back. they never went for anything that he proposed. john boehner then met privately with the president three different occasions three different times. they made a deal. and then john boehner came back to the house. eric cantor said oh
why doesn't he call mitch mcconnell down to the white house for a meeting? oh, my god he hasn't met with john boehner so he can't be serious about stalling the sequester. what idiots! to repeat something like that. republicans are idiots to say it but reporters -- to repeat it. don't they remember during the first term how many meetings did president obama have? with john boehner. if you recall, he even came up to the capitol hill, he even talked to the house republican caucus trying to get...
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mcconnell's. i think he's doing a good job. the best thing he can do is be a good leader in the senate right now. do your job well and that's your best safeguard to a primary or to a tough challenge and the bottom line is, if you look at the entire ad, it's not about ashley judd. there was an enormous amount of candidate who is are saying that they want to run against him. a lot of them who are whacky, one of them likes to wear a top hat a lot, a lot of them like to refer to her as ones who are saying they don't want to run, who would be the more serious candidates, the lieutenant governor, some congresspeople, et cetera. so this is not the add of a scared person. this is the ad of a confident person. >> ana and paul -- hold up, paul, unfortunately, we're up against the clock, so we can't continue, but we will, one of these days. thank you. coming up, by the way, in our next hour, it sounds like something out of a movie. $50 million in diamonds stolen in a shocking heist. we're going to be right b
mcconnell's. i think he's doing a good job. the best thing he can do is be a good leader in the senate right now. do your job well and that's your best safeguard to a primary or to a tough challenge and the bottom line is, if you look at the entire ad, it's not about ashley judd. there was an enormous amount of candidate who is are saying that they want to run against him. a lot of them who are whacky, one of them likes to wear a top hat a lot, a lot of them like to refer to her as ones who are...
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and one more. >> oh. >> ok, mitch mcconnell yesterday, here he is. >> last night the president offers -- last night's speech was pedestrian, liberal boiler plate that any democratic lawmaker could have given at any time in recent memory. [ mumbling ] stephanie: thank you. all right. tanya in washington state you're on the "stephanie miller show." hi. caller: hi, how are you? stephanie: good, go ahead. caller: i want to say a couple of things to you directly. stephanie: all right. caller: ok number one, don't be so down on yourself. you are about the prettiest thing i think i've ever seen. [ laughter ] stephanie: ok, thank you. caller: and i love the way you flip your hair. stephanie: in that marlow thomas kind of way? caller: yeah, the flip the hair thing and purring thing that you do. [ purring ] caller: don't say anything bad about yourself, other people only. stephanie: oh oh! ing oh. [ laughter ] caller: love you. stephanie: thank you, i love you to. that was magical. [ ♪ magic wand ♪ ] stephanie: let's go to al in buffalo. caller: hello. what does it say about the republican
and one more. >> oh. >> ok, mitch mcconnell yesterday, here he is. >> last night the president offers -- last night's speech was pedestrian, liberal boiler plate that any democratic lawmaker could have given at any time in recent memory. [ mumbling ] stephanie: thank you. all right. tanya in washington state you're on the "stephanie miller show." hi. caller: hi, how are you? stephanie: good, go ahead. caller: i want to say a couple of things to you directly....
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mcconnell said, obama implied that our entire agenda is driven by victimized groups. we have to have the appearance of civility and shove the knife in as far as it goes. if you read the transvice-- transcripts what i said to piers, it was not nice things. when i lead off with that, i was not -- they were not meant to be nice, but force him into debate, and you can do it while still maintaining the appearance of civility p. you can be a civil human being and say things that are -- i'm not claiming we should go and rant and rave and call them rase us back, but just debunk what they said. we mistake debunking what they say for civility. >> okay. >> thanks so much. [applause] >> as we mentioned, we have copies available and here to sign them, and i'm sure he's glad to talk with you more up here in front too. thank you for your kind attention. we are adjourned. [inaudible conversations] for more information, visit the author's website, benjamin benjaminschapiro.com. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2, and this is live coverage if the 6th annual savannah book festival in
mcconnell said, obama implied that our entire agenda is driven by victimized groups. we have to have the appearance of civility and shove the knife in as far as it goes. if you read the transvice-- transcripts what i said to piers, it was not nice things. when i lead off with that, i was not -- they were not meant to be nice, but force him into debate, and you can do it while still maintaining the appearance of civility p. you can be a civil human being and say things that are -- i'm not...
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minority leader mitch mcconnell has deputized senator john mccain as the weather vane by which to judge when republicans should yield on the filibuster. that might be a confounding decision since john mccain seems to drift from one position to another. sometimes in a matter of hours. on sunday mccain had this to say about the prospect of a filibuster against hagel. let's watch. >> we've never filibustered a presidential cabinet appointee, and i don't think we should start here. >> well, on monday, which is a day later of course, mccain was urging his colleagues on the armed services committee to vote on hagel's nomination saying, i believe he has fulfilled the rigorous requirements that the committee demands, and by the next day, tuesday, he rebuked ted cruz for his harsh critique of hagel, which i agree with. >> mr. hagel is an honorable man. he has served his country, and no one on this committee at any time should impugn his character or his integrity. >> we're going to show some of cruz's mccarthyite statements in the next segment. tuesday night, hours matter, mccain introduced a ne
minority leader mitch mcconnell has deputized senator john mccain as the weather vane by which to judge when republicans should yield on the filibuster. that might be a confounding decision since john mccain seems to drift from one position to another. sometimes in a matter of hours. on sunday mccain had this to say about the prospect of a filibuster against hagel. let's watch. >> we've never filibustered a presidential cabinet appointee, and i don't think we should start here. >>...
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he basically had this gentleman's agreement with mitch mcconnell. the president is saying we now have this de facto 60-vote rule. exactly. that's what advocates o reforming the filibuster in a muscular way you write in the rules are saying this is the tendency that there is nothing to interrupt this tendency right now. there's nothing in the norms of the institution. there's nothing in the actual rule, short of changing them, that is going to stop this. there's all the incentives for more of this to happen. so i'm sorry, it's a little hard for me to be particularly sympathetic to harry reid when he gets up there saying oh my god, look at these people abusing the filibuster. yeah, that's been the case, you had a chance to do something about it and didn't. >> republicans look at jim demint retire and replaced immediately with a possibly crazier senator from texas, ted cruz. john mccain was outraged that cruz questioned the patriotism, the loyalty to this country of chuck hagel. but the right way for john mccain to have expressed his outrage would have
he basically had this gentleman's agreement with mitch mcconnell. the president is saying we now have this de facto 60-vote rule. exactly. that's what advocates o reforming the filibuster in a muscular way you write in the rules are saying this is the tendency that there is nothing to interrupt this tendency right now. there's nothing in the norms of the institution. there's nothing in the actual rule, short of changing them, that is going to stop this. there's all the incentives for more of...
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harry had a chance to change the rules of the senate and he was too nice to mitch mcconnell and now look what we've got. there's probably more to come. your thoughts. >> i suppose so, though i remember not very long ago when we were all suffering under the george w. bush administration and there was a real fear that without the filibuster then george bush would have been able to put some of his very radical extremists on the bench and push through more of his agenda. so i understand the reticence to kind of unleash the nuclear option. and you know, i don't think you can necessarily blame harry reid for the unprecedented not just obstructionism but kind of paranoid lunacy of this new crop of senators who, you know, before i think we used to see this sort of incredibly paranoid mccarthyite apocalyptic view of american foreign policy among some of the characters in the house -- >> doesn't that make the case for why harry should have done, this because of the ted cruzes of the world and the tea parties of the world? they're trying to stop absolutely everything. i do kind of blame harry right
harry had a chance to change the rules of the senate and he was too nice to mitch mcconnell and now look what we've got. there's probably more to come. your thoughts. >> i suppose so, though i remember not very long ago when we were all suffering under the george w. bush administration and there was a real fear that without the filibuster then george bush would have been able to put some of his very radical extremists on the bench and push through more of his agenda. so i understand the...
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they're playing a game where harry reid against mitch mcconnell. the chess game continues unabated. harry reid could have broken the game over. >> john: mccain was candid saying we're punishing this guy for going against the bush administration. >> that's what they call gaffe in washington where you tell the truth and reveal what people are really thinking because what chuck hagel had done while bush was president was tell the truth. you can debate the surge and military issue aside but calling george bush the worst president since herbert hoover, 80% of the public at some point would have agreed with that. president obama's entitled to his secretary of defense. game over. >> john: it's incredibly historic. never happened before. what does this say about the likelihood of pushing any kind of legislation through the house or senate? >> if you go back to the state of the union where you had climate change, there's no way climate change is going to happen legislative. the president said he will do it individually through executive power. gun control wayne lapierrre out there on the lun
they're playing a game where harry reid against mitch mcconnell. the chess game continues unabated. harry reid could have broken the game over. >> john: mccain was candid saying we're punishing this guy for going against the bush administration. >> that's what they call gaffe in washington where you tell the truth and reveal what people are really thinking because what chuck hagel had done while bush was president was tell the truth. you can debate the surge and military issue aside...
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mcconnell, a possibility making some democrats on the national stage salivate with happiness. even the "new york times" says that bourbon country movers and shakers are not ruling out this possibility. the high profile actress and activist is also causing a little bit of concern. james carol is the washington bureau chief of the louisville courier journal and joins me. good to have you with me. the kentucky congressman john yarmouth said to a local station this morning that he says that she didn't say it to me but apparently she is going to make a decision by derby which is an important time to set your clock by in kentucky. in the meantime roll call is reporting there is fear among the kentucky state democrats that she would throw her hat into the ring, so what are you hearing through your sources about the possibility of the timing? >> well, that's the thing. she is doing a lot of this sort of very quietly, out of sight, so we have to sort of pick up the pieces where we hear them. she has told some people in kentucky that she would make a decision by derby day and, you're ri
mcconnell, a possibility making some democrats on the national stage salivate with happiness. even the "new york times" says that bourbon country movers and shakers are not ruling out this possibility. the high profile actress and activist is also causing a little bit of concern. james carol is the washington bureau chief of the louisville courier journal and joins me. good to have you with me. the kentucky congressman john yarmouth said to a local station this morning that he says...
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. >> clearly the most important person now as to whether anything will happen is senator mitch mcconnell. we don't know what's going to happen to the filibuster in the next few days but it seems unlikely he will be totally deprived of it. his views are a matter of public record, including a speech back in the spring -- and i'm told also senator mcconnell, people who purport to know his views, feels on the been like disclosure that he has this extreme slippery slope idea. any kind of movement on things that would seem to have support, he is worried about it but he believes with mccain-fine colt that he wasn't forthcoming. -- mccain-fine gold, that he was forthcoming. he ultimately got rolled down the hill. his strategy was to simply say no. that would suggest it is the case, and i don't have any real insight that would suggest there is not a broad scope for doing anything. but it is because of what happened in the past in this area, at this area has long passed. >> -- has a long past. centera reporter at the for public integrity. we heard a little bit today about the importance of nonprof
. >> clearly the most important person now as to whether anything will happen is senator mitch mcconnell. we don't know what's going to happen to the filibuster in the next few days but it seems unlikely he will be totally deprived of it. his views are a matter of public record, including a speech back in the spring -- and i'm told also senator mcconnell, people who purport to know his views, feels on the been like disclosure that he has this extreme slippery slope idea. any kind of...
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one citizen fell victim to the joke and sent a letter to mitch mcconnell. was the issue put to rest by mcconnell's office? not quite. the senator bucked the question to the pentagon and here is a look at the letter courtesy of wired magazine. i am writing on behalf of a constituent who has contacted me regarding guantanamo bay prisoners receiving post-9/11 gi bill benefits. i would appreciate your review and response to my constituent's concern. well, in some alternate reality where the whole thing were true, wouldn't it be more than a single constituent's concern that gi benefits were going to terrorists? anyway, somebody in mcconnell's office called it a humorous misunderstanding. you think? another headline on duffle blog's site reads, syria to host iraq war re-enactors. what people will believe. the gullible out there. >>> up next, the republican party has lurched too far to the right. it's one thing to hear a democrat say it, but a republican? and that's ahead. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. [ creaking ] [ male announcer ] trophies
one citizen fell victim to the joke and sent a letter to mitch mcconnell. was the issue put to rest by mcconnell's office? not quite. the senator bucked the question to the pentagon and here is a look at the letter courtesy of wired magazine. i am writing on behalf of a constituent who has contacted me regarding guantanamo bay prisoners receiving post-9/11 gi bill benefits. i would appreciate your review and response to my constituent's concern. well, in some alternate reality where the whole...
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mitch mcconnell called it a total waste of time. was this a serious offer? >> it is a serious offer. and it's a shame that the senate leader would say or the senate republican leader would say it's a waste of time to propose something that's half and half, which i think the american people think thees pretty fair. when you're in a debate and have a difference, you try to split the divide down the middle. that's what the president has offered and senate democrats have offered, house democrats have done much of the same thing. and unfortunately we're seeing an opposition that says, our way or the highway. in this case, the sequester is that highway. >> but this proposal puts off the budget cuts just until next january. won't that put us right back where we are right now? why can't we get an actual solution instead of that dreaded -- and the phrase i'm tired of hearing of -- kicking the can down the road? >> we should be able to get a long-term deal. it's not rocket science. we have about the right argument target in terms of our deficit reduction. we're about
mitch mcconnell called it a total waste of time. was this a serious offer? >> it is a serious offer. and it's a shame that the senate leader would say or the senate republican leader would say it's a waste of time to propose something that's half and half, which i think the american people think thees pretty fair. when you're in a debate and have a difference, you try to split the divide down the middle. that's what the president has offered and senate democrats have offered, house...
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mcconnell. they had good conversations, we are told. i don't know if anything was achieved. but 24 hours ago when dan pfeiffer, the white house senior adviser was here, i said to him, why doesn't the president at least pink up the phone and call these guys, get together the way tip o'neil used to do, the way ron neld reagan used to do and work out a deal? >> and the answer to that is serve still jockeying. the president and folks that i've talked to at the white house are very concerned about the potential impact this could have on the economy. if you go over this deadline and these furloughs really start taking effect, don't forget, it's not as if on march 1 everything kicks in. it's going to be gradual. but at some point somebody is going to lose this fight and it could well be the american people. so the president did pick up the phone. the question is whether it's going to have any real impact. >> i hope it it does. >> i hope they will go over to the white house and get involved in real nego
mcconnell. they had good conversations, we are told. i don't know if anything was achieved. but 24 hours ago when dan pfeiffer, the white house senior adviser was here, i said to him, why doesn't the president at least pink up the phone and call these guys, get together the way tip o'neil used to do, the way ron neld reagan used to do and work out a deal? >> and the answer to that is serve still jockeying. the president and folks that i've talked to at the white house are very concerned...
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mitch mcconnell praised him as well on the way out so i'm trying to figure out what has happened over the short period of time? everything he said about w., that happened prior to the comments being made. >> but l.z., he has given speeches and written and joined, been on the board of organizations that frankly make me a little uncomfortable and again i'm on the side of giving a president wide latitude in picking his cabinet, but those things have happened since he left the senate, so i'm not sure it's fair to compare what mccain said four or eight years ago and what he is saying today. >> if i could just maybe shed some light on that, it was back in 2000, when chuck hagel was actually john mccain's national co-chair of his presidential campaign, that's when mccain said that he personally he would even have chuck hagel as his defense secretary and what did change is what i mentioned before, it really was iraq that changed, that sent them on their separate ways personally but much more importantly on a policy level, and that was the fundamental problem at its foundation but there's no q
mitch mcconnell praised him as well on the way out so i'm trying to figure out what has happened over the short period of time? everything he said about w., that happened prior to the comments being made. >> but l.z., he has given speeches and written and joined, been on the board of organizations that frankly make me a little uncomfortable and again i'm on the side of giving a president wide latitude in picking his cabinet, but those things have happened since he left the senate, so i'm...
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she's reportedly told heavy weight democrats in kentucky she's considering a run against mitch mcconnell and a decision would be made by may. and having trouble getting your kids just to eat the broccoli? well, sweeten is up a bit. a new study says is a dash of sugar is the best way to get your kids to eat their vegetables? come on. researchers at university of connecticut says the sweetness help to battle the bitter taste of vegetables, never mind the effects of sugar. >> alisyn: i sugar butter. >> tucker: or maple syrup. and beginning racing in 1949. that was grand grandson and now grandson of legend dale earnhardt is following in his tire tracks and jeffrey is in daytona. >> alisyn: jeffrey, good to have you, and is it hard to live up to the earnhardt made. >> yes, my grandfather made such a name for the earnhardt family and the sport itself. i don't think it's something i could accomplish. >> clayton: you're racing for rookie of the year, invebl honor and feat. when people know your last name is earnhardt. do they have high expectations out of the gate. >> yes, you get it everywhere
she's reportedly told heavy weight democrats in kentucky she's considering a run against mitch mcconnell and a decision would be made by may. and having trouble getting your kids just to eat the broccoli? well, sweeten is up a bit. a new study says is a dash of sugar is the best way to get your kids to eat their vegetables? come on. researchers at university of connecticut says the sweetness help to battle the bitter taste of vegetables, never mind the effects of sugar. >> alisyn: i sugar...
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it was the deal making between vice president joe biden and mitch mcconnell, the senate republican leader. aga again, in the end game of this in 2011. the deal was that this phase of the deficit reduction was going to only be spending cuts, no tax increases. sot republicans have solid ground that the deal was no more tax increases on this. rationally, you need some sort of tax reform, but that was the secret deal between biden and mcconnell. once that is made, that sends you on the trajectory of the sequester, this super committee failing, and now we've got truly something -- if people understood it, they would be marching on washington and calling their congressmen and writing the white house. this is about as bad as governing can get. >> i don't disagree with that. >> andrew? >> i don't disagree. my only question is, when did you do it? >> when do you do what? short-term? >> when you do short-term anything. >> as far as cuts go? >> as far as cuts go. >> probably not when the economy is upside down. >> i'm not disagreeing, but there is an argument to be made that if you're not willing to
it was the deal making between vice president joe biden and mitch mcconnell, the senate republican leader. aga again, in the end game of this in 2011. the deal was that this phase of the deficit reduction was going to only be spending cuts, no tax increases. sot republicans have solid ground that the deal was no more tax increases on this. rationally, you need some sort of tax reform, but that was the secret deal between biden and mcconnell. once that is made, that sends you on the trajectory...
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she is thinking about a run against senator mitch mcconnell. a president's day weekend without the president. the first family, the white house said that first lady michelle obama is spending the weekend on ski slopes of aspen and the president is in florida golfing with staffers and friends. ambassador susan rice appeared on the daily show, answered questions about the benghazi attack. the question was posed why could to government agencies not get the story straight about the benghazi attack. listen to the answer. >> the bigger tragedy is we spent all the months trying figure out the origins of talking points. in my opinion, not enough time doing the service that we owed to our fallen colleagues that were lost. >> ambassador rice, withdrew her name for consideration can of secretary of state after republicans demanded answers of why show called the attack spontaneous. up next. girls with guns. the majority of gun owners aremen but that does not mean that women are not packing heat. we will look at that next, you are watching msnbc, the place
she is thinking about a run against senator mitch mcconnell. a president's day weekend without the president. the first family, the white house said that first lady michelle obama is spending the weekend on ski slopes of aspen and the president is in florida golfing with staffers and friends. ambassador susan rice appeared on the daily show, answered questions about the benghazi attack. the question was posed why could to government agencies not get the story straight about the benghazi attack....